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Old man yells at cloud

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Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by [deleted] »

root_axis wrote: post #105
AJRF wrote: post #39

I tried playing Civ 6 the other day with my friend, here's what happened; - Game crashed on startup - after searching online for a bit apparently changing your Steam Download Region can fix it. As in not redownloading the game from another region, just changing the setting. This worked. - Start game, started in Windowed mode and changing resolution caused the mouse to move super slowly. Restart game. Fixed. - Try to…

> Seems like we are at a point in time where the really talented people have left software engineering due to age or being promoted upwards Crashes, connectivity issues, and desyncing are as old as PC computer gaming, and they were all much worse in the past.

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Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by m463 »

habitue wrote: post #21

These are all examples of tradeoffs that have been made, and just collecting examples of the downsides of those tradeoffs without mentioning the upsides. Touchscreens are objectively worse than dedicated buttons, but the ability to have more than 4-5 buttons is a huge benefit. additionally, the UI can be less confusing because the button text can change depending on what you're doing, vsm a single physical d-pad and…

touchscreens in cars might be ok for settings, and the kinds of things you do when you are stopped.

But touchscreens have become a mess in cars.

Telsa is a horrible offender. I believe the UI designers must have stationary mockups that don't move around like a car.

Not only have they removed some dedicated controls, they have eliminated almost ALL dedicated controls now. The new model S/X cars don't have stalks - turn signals are touch buttons on the steering wheel. The car guesses what gear you want to be in.

Even older model S/X cars have been affected by updates - the targets have gotten smaller, and critical controls have lost dedicated positions on the screen.

for example: navigate home used to be a big button. Now it is tiny.

The defrost controls are not only on the touchscreen and tiny, now they can be moved and have state.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by berjin »

Ted had a point that the industrial revolution is a disaster for the human race. The thing is you cannot put the toothpaste back in the tube when your economic competitors have access to all the same technology. It's a race to the bottom.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by zug_zug »

dweekly wrote: post #92
zug_zug wrote: post #73

Re: videogames - no. I had about 9 video-games for my NES. The majority were unplayable enough that I never beat them as a child (Zelda 2, Double-dragon 2, mario 1, mario 3, gauntlet). Zelda 2 would routinely delete all of my progress because there was a physical battery in the cartridge that was running out. I had to work all kinds of magic to get the system to even start (alcohol wipes, blowing, cramming stuff in t…

When you've driven to the store to buy the game, pop it in, and immediately have to wait for a multi gigabyte download, the farce is made most apparent. You don't buy games at a store, you buy game coupons - the disc is just a proof of payment that is used to download the game, since the fact that it's on a disc is reasonable evidence that it's already out of date.

I get it, there's one tiny aspect which is frustrating about some modern games. I don't like mandatory updates either.

Bu if you're saying that one tiny inconvenience outweighs all the improvements since NES you're just lying to yourself and everyone around you. If I was a child I'd have waited 60 minutes PER BOOT to play a game with graphics, resolution, multiplayer of It Takes Two.

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Post by User23 »

The video gaming doesn't really ring true. When I was a kid when it was bedtime unless you left the (S)NES on with the TV off and nobody shut it off in the meantime, odds were good your progress was done. On the other hand with a Switch you just turn it off and when you turn it back on you're right where you were left. The quality of life increase for young gamers is absolutely huge.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by civilized »

warent wrote: post #82
AJRF wrote: post #39

I tried playing Civ 6 the other day with my friend, here's what happened; - Game crashed on startup - after searching online for a bit apparently changing your Steam Download Region can fix it. As in not redownloading the game from another region, just changing the setting. This worked. - Start game, started in Windowed mode and changing resolution caused the mouse to move super slowly. Restart game. Fixed. - Try to…

> Seems like we are at a point in time where the really talented people have left software engineering due to age or being promoted upwards. Agree that is a factor, but a small one. > It feels like as a collective software engineers have lost their culture and everything is too complex to grasp so we build complexity on top of a misunderstood base, and everything falls apart. Respectfully disagree here. Systems have…

Systems have been complex for decades, but bad incentives are more recent?

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by zug_zug »

agumonkey wrote: post #94
zug_zug wrote: post #73

Re: videogames - no. I had about 9 video-games for my NES. The majority were unplayable enough that I never beat them as a child (Zelda 2, Double-dragon 2, mario 1, mario 3, gauntlet). Zelda 2 would routinely delete all of my progress because there was a physical battery in the cartridge that was running out. I had to work all kinds of magic to get the system to even start (alcohol wipes, blowing, cramming stuff in t…

They weren't unplayable, they were hard. As a kid we routinely used to go far in the game with fun, as an adult I was shocked at how difficult they were and couldn't finish anything but we used to. Also some games had nice enough multiplayer modes that we spent all night on these with my cousin (bubble bobble, rc pro am). I wouldn't compare the 8bit era with the post ps3 era

Yeah I had fun too, I played Rampage for hours at my friends house. But not because it's a good game, it's bad game, objectively.

Games today are waaaay better and about 90% cheaper often. Those old games are unplayable by modern standards -- beating mario 3 in one sitting with no save capability? People wouldn't play that for free (if it weren't for the nostalgia).

The difference isn't technology is worse (in video games, and probably not in general), the difference is children are easy to entertain.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by theferalrobot »

paxys wrote: post #88
theferalrobot wrote: post #70

> Playing together now a means an hour of downloading content from an online service before the game even starts — and this particular game is an entirely offline one! Did nobody else spent the first 8 hours of 00s LAN parties trying to get the equipment set up, the networking to cooperate, the games shared? Then finally after a reformat of windows xp or two around 2am finally getting to the gaming? That was my only…

This entire post is pretty much the definition of having rose tinted glasses when remembering the past. There was a lot of annoying shit back then too, you just choose to not retain those memories.

Am I misreading your post? I think that’s my whole point right?

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by Kon-Peki »

eggsmediumrare wrote: post #17
codetrotter wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kick the front window out with your feet.

Do we have the technology to make windows that can smash from the inside but not the outside?

If anyone besides me is wondering what happened, it appears that someone posted a ChatGPT response to this question that was could-cause-death-in-an-emergency wrong and has now deleted the comment.

Thanks for deleting it!

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Post by hotpotamus »

Apocryphon wrote: post #9
mberning wrote: post #4

Man vehicles are a big one. All of the infotainment crap, the 200 control computers, electronic wastegate turbos, etc. etc. are going to age so poorly. There is a reason why cars with mininal BS are fetching such a premium on the used market.

So just how does one escape from a car through the window if the electrical mechanism is broken?

I think the most impressive way I've seen are known as "ninja rocks" - broken pieces of spark plug ceramic insulator. But basically anything that can apply a force to a tiny area of the glass can start a fracture that will propagate through the glass. They make little escape hammers and things if it's a concern.
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